Rhodesia almost the youngest of all the british colonies his made astonishing progress. A generation ago it was a virtually unknown land, peopled by warlike natives, ...
Article : 1,214 wordsFeodor Chaliapin, whose season in Sydney has aroused so much interest, will give his fourth recital at the Town Hall to-night. The singing of the great basso has charmed and delighted audiences here, as ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Great War demonstrated that when women combine for the furtherance of any ideal they bring to their united action an intensity of purpose and a loftiness of idealism which ...
Article : 1,045 wordsAt present tbey could foresee none of these things. This was showtime at W[?]rri. The people of the whole district were gathered at Wurri, motor cars, horsedrawn vehicles, ...
Article : 1,694 wordsThe blue and white room of Susan and Phoebe Throssel will give way this evening at the Theatre Royal to the Scottish abode of the Wylies, in "What Every Woman ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 416 wordsMany beautiful as well as original costumes have been designed for the artists' ball in the Sydney Town Hall on Monday night. For those who do not wish to wear fancy dress ...
Article : 1,306 wordsAnother of Rarrie's charming plays, "What Every Woman Knows," will succeed "Quality Street" at the Theatre Royal to-night. The story is that of the keen-witted Maggie and her husband, John ...
Article : 104 wordsProfessor Stephon Leacock's industry is prodigious and his fertitity inexhaustible. In the intervals of lecturing upon the "dismal science" of political economy, at the ...
Article : 248 wordsThis evening, "The Mask and the Face" will be produced at the Criterion Theatre. The cast will include Miss Rence Kelly, Mr. Hylton Allen, Mr. George Barrand, Miss Margaret Damer, Miss Dorothy ...
Article : 50 words"Rose Marie" is in the midst of a highly prosperous season at Her Majesty's Theatre, where matinees will take place to-day and on Wednesday. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe final performance of "No, No, Nanette" will be given at St. James's Theatre next Friday night, when Hugh J. Ward's Company will conclude its 21 weeks' season in this city. On the next night, ...
Article : 68 wordsIn view of the pronounced success of "Mercenary Mary" in Adelaide, the Hugh J. Ward management announces the season there is to be extended for a week. The first Sydney performance of this musical ...
Article : 49 wordsCrowded audiences are the rule for "The Best People," at the Grand Opera House, where the new American artists interpreting this comedy have won decided popularity. Matinees are announced for ...
Article : 49 wordsIn "The Royal Road to Romance" Mr. Richard Hallburton tells of an agreeable "wander-year" he enjoyed after completing his course at Princeton. His parents had offered ...
Article : 428 wordsOnly five nights remain of "The Climax" season, which will close at the Palace on Thursday night. Matinees will take place to-day and on Wednesday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Midnight Froli[?]s begin the fourth week of their season at Fullers' Theatre to-day. Packed houses greet this band of entertainers at the afternoon and evening performances. Cl[?] Dawe, the leading ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 328 wordsThe Southern Plantation Revue Company is performing to crowded houses at the Tivoli, where Cor[?]m, the ventriloquist, and Cahill and Brooke are also high in public favour. ...
Article : 31 wordsFollowing "The Climax" at the Palace "The Sport of Kings" will be produced on August 21. A new cast will include Miss Zillah Bateman and Mr. Joseph Cunningham. The comedy was written by ...
Article : 41 wordsA concert will be given to-night at the Conservatorium by the Sydney Harmonic Choral Society, of which Mr. William Bourne is conductor. Messrs. Alfred O'Shea, Alexander Sydriensky, and Hardy ...
Article : 50 wordsThe fifth matinee by the Conservatorium Orchestra will be held next Saturday afternoon. The programme will include the overture "Land of the Mountain and the Flood" (Ma[?]), part of the "New World" ...
Article : 53 words"Prune[?]la" will be performed at the Playbox Theatre, Rowe-street, for only two more nights—next Wednesday and the Wednesday following. This fantasy by Laurence Housman and Granville Barker, has ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Mosman Musical Society's week's season of "The Merry Widow" will conclude with to-night's performance. Mr. A. H. Norman is musical director, and Mr. Spencer Barry producer. ...
Article : 31 wordsPart songs of widely diversi[?]ed character will be included in the programme of the Sydney Madrigal Society at its concert on Tuesday evening next at the Conservatorium, under Mr. Fred[?]rick Mewton's ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Players' Club will perform Pirandello's play "Right You Are" at St. James's Hall, on Thursday, August 1[?], in aid of the Jos[?] Kret[?]ehmann cot at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Caledonian Society's monthly concert will take place at St. James's Hall to-night, when Misses Rosina Smith, Bessie Crowe, and Florence McEachern, Messrs. Stewart and Lorraine, Robert L. Harper, Victor Evan[?], ...
Article : 45 words"Money to Burn" is a capital story by Mr. William Douglas, who has contrived an ingenious set of complicatious. A rather dour young Aberdonian has made £80,000 out of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsThe finals of the annual competitons in sightreading and part-singing among the children of the Public schools will take place at the Conserv[?]t[?]rium at 1.30 p.m. to-day. ...
Article : 32 wordsA vocal recital is to be given at the conservato[?]um on Saturday evening next, by Mr. Joseph Holm (tenor), from the studio of signor Guid[?] Cacia[?] The programme will consist mainly of o[?]eratic numbers. The ...
Article : 63 wordsFrederick Lonsdale's comedy "Aren't We All?" It is announced, will be played by the H. W. Varna Company at St. James's Hall on Monday, August 30. The plan is at Paling's. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Arthur Buckley will appear at Adyar Hall this afternoon and evening, in his entertainment of old Indian mysteries and other demonstrations. Performances will be given on Tuesday, Wednesday, and ...
Article : 46 wordsThe P. and O. Royal Ma[?]l liner Mooltan arrived in Sydney yesterday morning a day late. Captain W. F. Cossey, R.N.R., said his ship was ready to leave Adelaide on Saturday ...
Article : 67 wordsWorth's, Ltd., will give a ballad concert, with player music, at Adyar Hall on Thursday. August 2[?]. Miss Muriel Humphries and Mr. Walter Kingsley will sing, and Mr. Harry Kahn will play violin solos. ...
Article : 38 wordsTo raise funds for the maintenance of their cot in the Children's Hospital, the employees of the Civil Service Stores held their second annual dance last night at the ...
Article : 399 wordsAnother vaudeville programme will be given to-night at the Hippodrome, under the management of Mr. P. W. Stevenson. Vera la Vere's Troupe of Russian Dancers, the Fen[?]ens, the Sinclairs, the ...
Article : 51 wordsSir,—In considering the letters that [?] appeared in your columns protesting against the proposal of the Kuring-gai Shire Council to construct a causeway over Stoney Creek ...
Article : 300 wordsThe fourth concert this season by the Conservatorium students will take place next Wednesday. Mr. Florent Hoogstoel will conduct the students' orchestra, which will take part in the performance of two piano ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Lawrence Campbell students will give an entertainment at St. James's Hall on Monday evening in aid of the Cancer Research Fund, and will perform a scene from "The Taming of the Shrew," a comedietta, ...
Article : 64 wordsA Oritical Medley, Partridge (Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion). Lone Pine Memorial Register (Department of Defence). ...
Article : 64 wordsPupils from the studi[?]s of Madame Ada Baker and Mr. S. Vost Janssen will give a concert at Paling's Hall on Wednesday evening, August 1[?]. ...
Article : 28 wordsColleen Moore appears in an elaborate new picture entitled "Irene," at the Lyceum and Crystal Pal[?]ce Theatres to-day. "Irene" is founded on the musical comedy of the same name, which had a successful ...
Article : 85 wordsThe recent letter by "Oldest Inhabitant" in regard to the vacant land at the corner of Woolcott and Craigend streets as affording opportunity for widening, and thereby ...
Article : 312 wordsThe management of the Prince Edward Theatre announces that the Red Indians now appearing in the prologue to "The Vanishing Race" will not appear at any other theatre in New South Wales. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Double Bay "younger set" committee organised a dance last night, at the Went-worth, in aid of the Hospice for the Dying, Darlinghurst. Miss Elaine de Chair gave her ...
Article : 326 wordsAlthough much of "Metallurgy and its Influ[?]n Modern Progress," by Sir Robert A. Hadfield, is technical in character, the part which deals with the history of iron-working ...
Article : 323 words"Don Q., Son of Zorro," enters upon its third week at the Crystal Palace Theatre to-day. Do[?]glas Fairbanks plays the principal part in the picture, which has been adapted from a story by Kathleen Pritchar[?]. ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—Mr. Robinson's letter in this morning's issue is somewhat misleading. The causeway a hundred yards to the cast of the present footbridge has not been washed away. ...
Article : 224 words"Chip of the Flying [?].," a [?] Universal picture, featuring Hoot Gibson, is the main attraction at the Empress Theatre to-day. The programme includes also "Faint Perf[?]me," a Master Picture. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn addition to "Chip of the Flying U.," with Hoot Gibson, patrons of the Lyric Theatre to-day will see "Ra[?]son's Folly," with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Macka[?]. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is understood that the Federal Ministry is disposed to regard favourably the suggestion that an Australian Exhibition should be held, and the view has been expressed that ...
Article : 55 wordsMrs. Ashley Breroton presided at a meeting held at Sydney Hospital yesterday morning to discuss the British and Australian Motor Industries' Ball, which will be held at ...
Article : 136 wordsIts first fine for a breach of an award was imposed to-day by the newly-constituted Commonwealth Arbitration Court when the Barnet Glass Rubber Company was fined £1 in ...
Article : 66 words'Tram Traveller," in a letter to Editor, complains that although tram conductors are officially obliged to prevent passengers smoking in non-smoking compartments, the bylaw is often ignored. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Aug 1926, Page 10
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